Replicated announced a host of new platform features and
capabilities that enable their customers to accelerate enterprise
adoption of their Kubernetes applications.
"Ensuring
that our customers can increase adoption rates, operationalize their
application distribution processes, and effectively scale their
go-to-market strategies is something that we continually strive to
deliver on," said Grant Miller, CEO, and co-founder of Replicated. "When
our customers succeed, we succeed as well, so we're very excited to be
rolling out a host of new features to help independent software vendors
deliver their products simply and efficiently."
Key
newly released features and updates that accelerate enterprise adoption
and drive success for vendors with Kubernetes-based applications:
- Community licensing
- Enterprise
software vendors struggle to distribute trial versions of their
software into self-hosted environments. Replicated's community licensing
feature allows software vendors to distribute unlimited trial licenses
for customer-controlled instances. Software vendors can increase
adoption by converting community licenses to commercial licenses as
enterprises move from trial to production.
- Preflight checks
- Installation
failures can be a roadblock to an enterprise sale. Preflight checks,
which verify the container environment, cluster resources, and
configuration, will flag install issues before they arise, drastically
increasing DevOps efficiency. New customizable host- and
application-level preflight checks increase the success rate of
first-time installations and upgrades.
- Semantic versioning and auto-updates
- Enterprise
software vendors spend valuable resources troubleshooting issues for
customers on older unsupported versions of their applications. With
Semantic Versioning, vendors can keep all customer-controlled software
up-to-date. Vendors can now easily manage multiple channels, support
automatic updates, and allow customers to choose which version they want
to install and require specific major versions during step upgrades.
Replicated customers already see value from these new features. Wallaroo,
a platform built to provide a simple, secure, and scalable way to
deploy, run, and observe machine learning in an enterprise production
environment, relayed their satisfaction with Replicated's new
capabilities. "Thanks to Replicated's Community Licensing, we've found a
great way to speed up our adoption rate with Wallaroo Community Edition,"
says Younes Amar, Head of Product at Wallaroo. "We've increased our
trustability and transparency for anyone in the machine learning and
data science community looking to simplify the deployment and management
of ML models and pipelines."